I-Shou’s General Education curriculum includes required core courses and elective courses.
To foster students’ fundamental academic skills and respect for democracy, the required core
courses include the subjects of Chinese, English, Chinese Constitution and Law, and History and Culture. To expand students’ knowledge learned from the core courses and further explore their interests in differing academic fields, elective courses include Physical Education and the following subjects—Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, Natural and Applied Sciences, Life Sciences, General Education Lectures, General Education Passport, Moral Education of each college, and applied courses of a variety of fields .
The current goals of the General Education Center include the following:
1. Teachers can better understand and practice the notion of the well-rounded education.
2. After careful research of the other universities’ curricula, the content of the required
core courses, including Chinese, English, History and Culture, and Chinese Constitution
and Law are to be adjusted. Chinese courses will focus on writing and reading Chinese
literature. English courses will aim to improve students’ listening, speaking, reading,
and writing skills. In addition, the curriculum design of History and Culture will be theme-
based. Furthermore, elective courses aim to be more multicultural and interdisciplinary in
order to better prepare students for their academic studies and future careers.
